Posts Tagged "Abuse"

A systemic/psychodynamic approach to domestic violence/abuse in couple counselling: the safety plan.

EMDR has emerged in recent years as an effective therapy for a range of issues, from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) to chronic pain, abuse and phobias. It was recently been approved by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence as a treatment for PTSD. So how does it work?

A recent report in the British Medical Journal suggests that children who are bullied are at high risk of self-harm in early adolescence. In their study – which followed 1000 sets of twins over a period of several years – researchers also found that many of the children who had been bullied and who later [...]